Navajo National Monument: Stand on the edge of sacred Tsegi Canyon and gaze at an ancient city rising out of the flaking, reddish- pink rock, hidden and forgotten in a natural alcove above a green-and-white swipe of bottomland aspen forest.

Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park: Drive the sandy red-dirt loop around a barren valley populated by jutting, crumbling stone giants, an awe-inspiring landscape rooted deeply in the American imagination.

Canyon de Chelly National Monument: Hike to the White House Ruin along a precipitous rock trail hewn out of the cliffside, past a Navajo farm and into the shade of cottonwoods below the sheer canyon walls, circled endlessly by ravens and silence.

Hopi Mesas: Take a quiet walk through the oldest continually inhabited village on the continent, where past and present bleed together and thousand-year-old traditions are a part of everyday life.

Petrified Forest National Park: Walk among the smooth-rock remains of a swampy forest, now a parched land strewn with reminders of the earth’s unfathomable age and a desert decorated with pastel blues and pinks.